District OKs custodians contract, avoids privatization

Brandon Twp.- The school board unanimously approved a 3-year contract with Teamsters Local #214 during the Aug. 9 board meeting, avoiding privatization of custodians and maintenance personnel. The union, representing 22 employees who provide custodial and maintenance services throughout the district, approved the contract last month with numerous concessions. Under the new contract, employees will […]

Twp. community park projects move forward

Brandon Twp.- The economy is down, but the park is getting a lift. The township board voted 4-3 at the Aug. 9 budget workshop meeting to install a sledding hill lift station at the community park, 1414 N. Hadley Road. The project is the last step in completing a grant the township received in 2008 […]

Twp. community park projects move forward

Brandon Twp.- The economy is down, but the park is getting a lift. The township board voted 4-3 at the Aug. 9 budget workshop meeting to install a sledding hill lift station at the community park, 1414 N. Hadley Road. The project is the last step in completing a grant the township received in 2008 […]

Candidates set for November elections

In November, voters in the Brandon School District will choose two board trustees from a field of four candidates and voters within the village of Ortonville will make a choice in the council president race and in seating a trustee for a partial term. But as was revealed when the petition deadline passed at 4 […]

Kitchen explosion results in HAZMAT call-in

Brandon Twp.- A concoction Barbara Jones made in her kitchen Monday night required a response by not only the township firefighters, but the North Oakland Hazardous Materitals Team (HAZMAT). Lucky for her, she’s a self-described neatnik, or she may not have lived to tell the tale. Jones owns an above-ground pool at her home in […]

Nuccio, Quisenberry to battle in 1st Commissioners race

Two former Brandon School Board colleagues will face off in November for a county commissioner seat. Beth Nuccio won the Republican nomination for the 1st District County Commissioner in Tuesday’s primary election. In a field of seven candidates, she took 1,999 votes, or 28.90 percent. Her closest competitor was Oxford resident James R. Porritt, Jr. […]

Twp. eyes medical marijuana enforcement

Brandon Twp.- Medical marijuana will be a topic of discussion at the planning commission meeting planned for 7:30 p.m., Aug. 24, at the township offices, 395 Mill St., said Township Supervisor Kathy Thurman. ‘I think at some point we should establish regulations, but as far as what they should be, I don’t know,? she said. […]

DDA takes aim at new facades for businesses

Ortonville- Two village businesses are improving their looks? for free. The Clarkston Brandon Community Credit Union (CBCCU), 4 South St., and Engineering Tube Specialties, 85 Myron St., were recently awarded facade grants from the Downtown Development Authority. Molly Lalone, DDA executive director, said Engineering Tube was approved for just under $1,500 and plans to reside […]

Hearing delayed in township guardian’s abuse case

A review hearing has been delayed for the former township man accused of sexually abusing the mentally incapacitated man for whom he was guardian. The hearing for Duane Emery Kuerbitz has been adjourned until 1:30 p.m., Aug. 31, in front of Sixth Circuit Court Judge Rae Lee Chabot, pending completion of a psychological examination. Kuerbitz, […]

Hazel Inscho: ‘I’m as healthy as most 106-year-olds?

Hazel Inscho likes to say that if she knew she was going to live this long, she would have taken better care of herself. It seems she’s done all right? particularly since the average life expectancy in the U.S. in 1904’the year she was born’was a paltry 47 and on July 15, Hazel marked her […]